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{{Infobox project
| title = Flash domains
| logo = Adobe-swf-icon.png
| url = Various
| project_status = {{endangered}} (Plugin is discontinued on 2020-12-31, browsers will begin actively blocking use of it on 2021-01-01)
| archiving_status = {{inprogress}}
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/flashdomains-grab flashdomains-grab]
| tracker = [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/flashdomains/ flashdomains]
| irc = flashbang
| irc_network = hackint
}}
Adobe has announced that it intends to end of life the multimedia plugin and player called "Flash" at the end of 2020. In doing so, it will backstab decades of created content.
Adobe has announced that it intends to end of life the multimedia plugin and player called "Flash" at the end of 2020. In doing so, it will backstab decades of created content.


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* [https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-finally-kills-flash-dead/ Adobe Finally Kills Flash Dead], Wired Magazine, July 2017
* [https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-finally-kills-flash-dead/ Adobe Finally Kills Flash Dead], Wired Magazine, July 2017
* [https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/25/16026236/adobe-flash-end-of-support-2020 Adobe Will Finally Kill Flash in 2020], The Verge, July 2017
* [https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/25/16026236/adobe-flash-end-of-support-2020 Adobe Will Finally Kill Flash in 2020], The Verge, July 2017
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Revision as of 22:31, 31 December 2020

Flash domains
Flash logo
URL Various
Status Endangered (Plugin is discontinued on 2020-12-31, browsers will begin actively blocking use of it on 2021-01-01)
Archiving status In progress...
Archiving type Unknown
Project source flashdomains-grab
Project tracker flashdomains
IRC channel #flashbang (on hackint)

Adobe has announced that it intends to end of life the multimedia plugin and player called "Flash" at the end of 2020. In doing so, it will backstab decades of created content.

This working page is meant to gather information on this situation and create possibilities for prolonging Flash, even as an open-source player of content already created.

Projects

  • Flashpoint are collecting Flash games, and have written a standalone web server you run locally to play the games, they respect takedown requests from content owners.

Various Articles and Sources